Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with George Sukin, 1978 June 13
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0002.00028
Abstract
George Sukin talks about life in Poland, Palestine and Billings, Montana. He was taken out of high school at 16 to enlist in the army.
Dates:
1978 June 13
Oral History Interview with Hyman Bush, 1978 August 25
Item
Identifier: B098.04.0007.00003
Abstract
Topics include: Family coming from Russia to Des Moines, Iowa through Elis Island, father worked in dairy in Russia and was a peddler in US, father didn't want to serve in Russian army, lived in Chicago, work life, son had jewelry business in Denver.
Dates:
1978 August 25
Oral History Interview with Israel Kreiner, 1970
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0001.00021
Abstract
Israel Kreiner came over from Austria when he was 7 years old. He traveled across the country in a group with other Jewish families on a train from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Was part of a Jewish cooperative colony. Talks about his family and wife. His father had semicha.
Dates:
1970
Oral History Interview with Wolfe Karsh, 1977 March 1
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0001.00008
Abstract
Wolfe Karsh discusses his family's emigration from Poland to Denver, Colorado when he was three years old. He describes Jewish life in Denver in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Jewish religious community in the early 20th century. He talks about Shul Baer Milstein and the Hebrew Educational Alliance. He also discusses his interest in singing, his various jobs in Denver, his experience in the U.S. Navy, and his experience as a farmer and cattle rancher.
Dates:
1977 March 1
Roth and Ambrose Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B348
Abstract
Henry Roth moved to Pueblo, Colorado around 1896 with his wife Rose Schon Roth. Henry Roth joined the Pueblo Police Department and carried badge No. 29. Hannah Roth, the daughter of Henry and Rose Roth, was born on Hester Street in New York and was young when the family moved to Pueblo. Hannah Roth married itinerant Hungarian cowboy Adolph Hausman and the couple moved to a lumber camp in British Columbia, where their first child Harriett was born in 1913. After a year in Canada, the family...
Dates:
between 1890-1976
West Side Reunion Records
Collection
Identifier: B264
Abstract
A group of Jewsish friends, who had grown up on Denver's Jewish West Side neighborhood, organized a pinic. The Denver West Side Reunion Picnic was held on July 15, 1979. High school classes of 1955 through 1958 were invited. Roberta Greengard, chair of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, prepared questionnaires. Plans were made to have a larger reunion and invite people who had been part of the Jewish West Side. The West Side Reunion was held July 4-6, 1985. Reunion members again...
Dates:
1936-1985